Bucking the trends of the global
free access to law movement, our friends in Eagan have unveiled an ambitious interface to Chinese law.
In a more foreseeable way, respondents confirmed how the Canadian legal information market is today dominated by
the free access to law movement.
A new report on
the free access to law movement, entitled Free Access to Law: Is It Here to Stay?
Gain support for
the free access to law movement and draw involvement from all significant justice sector stakeholders; and
ZambiaLII is a pioneer in
the free access to law movement and serves as a reliable and timely source of judicial decisions, legislation and statutory instruments.
The Swazi Legal Information Institute participates in
the free access to law movement.
Slaw's own Ted Tjaden is quoted in this week's Lawyers» Weekly on whether
the free access to the law movement has reached the point of such reliability and comprehensiveness that it can be considered as an adequate substitute for the commercial giants.
IDRC hopes to deliver an indicator - based framework that will assist Law Societies and other stakeholders involved in
the free access to law movement worldwide in measuring the outcome of their efforts.
I think this is a fabulous opportunity for Canadian legal information professionals to get more involved in
the free access to law movement.
The proper solution would be public free access, available to everyone, on the LII model within
the free access to law movement.
Not exact matches
Mrs May has announced her priorities, and it is easy
to infer what pressures create them — no contribution
to the EU for
access to the single market; no jurisdiction for the Court of Justice of the European Union; no
free movement; and British
laws being made in Parliament.
Back
to our turf, in 2002 at the
Law via the Internet conference in Montreal the LII
movement adopted the Montreal Declaration on
Free Access to Law.
[This is the first of a two - part column on open
access and public
access to Canadian legal scholarship within the
free law movement.
Further, the privatization of regulation would represent a significant step backwards in a nation - and world - wide
movement to establish
free access to law and legal information.
this concept of
free public
access to law has grown
to 22 organizations world - wide; I was pleasantly surprised
to learn of
movements in Africa, South America, and Europe;
there is a new desire in the
free public
access to law movement to include not just primary materials of legislation and case
law, but also secondary materials such as treatises and
law journal articles (or doctrine) in the systems.
What I do argue is that
law reports are too important
to be locked behind commercial subscription portals; rather, they must be produced and distributed digitially only, ideally within the
free -
access -
to -
law movement (CanLII, BAILII et al.) in the best interests of profession and
access to justice.
Nonetheless the «
free access to law»
movement is obviously great for both legal information consumers and the competitive marketplace.
Canada has traditionally been a leader in the
free -
access -
to -
law movement — witness CanLII and its leading role in developing freely - available digital collections of current legal information.
Legal information institutes are organizations closely identified with the «
free access to law»
movement.
Joining with an international
movement for
Free Access to Law, the US - based organization helps people know their rights in an increasingly uncertain and rapidly... Read More «
Law for All:
Free Law Project's Radical Approach
to Legal Transparency»
What work has been or is being done within the «
free access to law»
movement?